Comparison of Blogshot Formats With Standard Cochrane Plain Language Formats

NCT ID: NCT03542201

Last Updated: 2018-09-25

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

238 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2018-04-01

Study Completion Date

2018-08-01

Brief Summary

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Participants will receive in random order on format of brief description of systematic review summary on health intervention. One group will receive standard plain language summary, while another will receive Cochrane blog shot, containing only few information about the efficacy of the intervention. After reading, their task will be to answer several questions about the material they have read.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

OTHER

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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PLS

Plain abstract about the Cochrane systematic review.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

PLS

Intervention Type OTHER

Participants will have to read standard textual information about the conducted systematic review (approximately 500 words)

Blogshot

Blogshot presentation of the results of Cochrane systematic review.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Blogshot

Intervention Type OTHER

Participants will have to read the blogshot information about the results of the Cochrane systematic review (approximately 100 words)

Interventions

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PLS

Participants will have to read standard textual information about the conducted systematic review (approximately 500 words)

Intervention Type OTHER

Blogshot

Participants will have to read the blogshot information about the results of the Cochrane systematic review (approximately 100 words)

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Patients visiting their family doctor, students of biomedical studies.

Exclusion Criteria

* None
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

99 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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University of Split, School of Medicine

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Ivan Buljan, MPsy

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

PhD student

Locations

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University of Split School of Medicine

Split, , Croatia

Site Status

Countries

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Croatia

References

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Schapira MM, Walker CM, Cappaert KJ, Ganschow PS, Fletcher KE, McGinley EL, Del Pozo S, Schauer C, Tarima S, Jacobs EA. The numeracy understanding in medicine instrument: a measure of health numeracy developed using item response theory. Med Decis Making. 2012 Nov-Dec;32(6):851-65. doi: 10.1177/0272989X12447239. Epub 2012 May 25.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 22635285 (View on PubMed)

Buljan I, Tokalic R, Roguljic M, Zakarija-Grkovic I, Vrdoljak D, Milic P, Puljak L, Marusic A. Comparison of blogshots with plain language summaries of Cochrane systematic reviews: a qualitative study and randomized trial. Trials. 2020 May 25;21(1):426. doi: 10.1186/s13063-020-04360-9.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 32450904 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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IP-2014-09-7672

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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